Tanzania’s new president John Magufuli has sacked several top port figures following the discovery that over 2,700 shipping containers were smuggled at the Port of Dar es Salaam tax free.
Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) director general Awadhi Massawe, TPA chairman Joseph Msambichaka and Shaaban Mwinjaka, secretary general of the Ministry of Transport, were dismissed after two surprise visits to the port made by Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa revealed the corruption scam.
On one of the visits to the port, the Prime Minister found out that 349 shipping containers, worth more than Sh80bn (US$37m), were smuggled from inland container depots serving the port without paying government taxes.
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